Active clinical trials for "Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors"

A phase IIIb study of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors who have had progressive disease while on 400 mg imatinib. Patients will be randomly assigned to either sunitinib 37.5 mg daily or imatinib 800 mg daily. This study will find out the benefits and potential side effects of taking sunitinib or imatinib for approximately one year.

Imatinib mesylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. Oblimersen may help imatinib mesylate kill more tumor cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. This phase II trial is studying how well giving imatinib mesylate together with oblimersen works in treating patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor that cannot be removed by surgery.

The purpose of this study is to determine if escalating the dose of imatinib to keep the drug blood level at ≥ 1100 ng/ml leads to better outcomes for patients.

The trial "The stop-GIST trial" is an Oslo University Hospital sponsored, prospective, open-label, 1-group, multicenter phase II trial evaluating discontinuation of imatinib in highly selected patients treated with imatinib longer than 5 years for oligo-metastatic GIST (≤ 3 metastases) and who have no detectable overt GIST lesions on CT/MRI imaging following complete surgical resection (R0/R1-resection) or radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the metastases.

This is a Phase 1, open-label, first-in-human (FIH) study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD) and antineoplastic activity of avapritinib (formerly BLU-285), administered orally (PO), in adult patients with unresectable GIST or other relapsed or refractory solid tumors. The study consists of 2 parts, a dose-escalation part (Part 1) and an expansion part (Part 2).

The study is a prospective single armed, open label phase I study. Patients with advanced or metastatic GIST and tumor progression despite ongoing treatment with second, third or fourth line TKI treatment, and with at least one measureable tumor lesion, will be eligible for the study. A maximum of 12 patients will be included in this study. The patients will continue with TKI treatment until the 3 months follow up visit. If further tumor progression TKI will be withdrawn but if stable disease or objective response the patient will continue with TKI until progress. The investigational product Intuvax will be injected into a tumor lesion at two or three treatment occasions; day 1, 14 days (±3 days) after the first vaccination, and 28 days (±3 days) after the second vaccination (patient 7-12 only). Intuvax will be injected in a viable part of the tumor, using ultrasound-guided or CT technique for correct administration.

Regorafenib is a novel oral multi-kinase inhibitor which targets angiogenic, stromal and oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases. It is currently registered for GIST and mCRC. When regorafenib is co-administered with an acid suppressive agent, the intra-gastric pH increases, and as a result the equilibrium of ionized/non-ionized regorafenib may shift to the less soluble non-ionized form which reduces regorafenib bioavailability and exposure. Since proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are often used during regorafenib therapy, this drug-drug interaction (DDI) confronts pharmacists and oncologists with challenges in clinical practice. In this study the investigators will therefore evaluate the impact of PPI-induced intra-gastric pH elevation on regorafenib pharmacokinetics in patients with GIST and mCRC.

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn how CGT9486 (fka PLX9486) may affect cancer cells with certain mutations in the KIT gene, specifically in participants with types of advanced solid tumors including gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). CGT9486 (fka PLX9486) is designed to block KIT gene mutations. These mutations can cause cancer and cancer cell growth. By blocking these mutations, the drug may kill the cancer cells with the mutation and/or stop the tumor from growing. By combining CGT9486 (fka PLX9486) with PLX3397 and CGT9486 (fka PLX9486) with sunitinib, the investigators hope to block most KIT gene mutations that drive cancer growth.

The study is a multi-center, multi-national, open label, single arm Phase II study of single-agent cabozantinib. The objective of the study is to assess the safety and activity of cabozantinib in patients with metastatic GIST who have previously progressed on imatinib and sunitinib and have not been exposed yet to other KIT- or PDGFR-directed tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Patient will receive cabozantinib until they experience no further benefit from the treatment, becoming intolerant to the drug or wishing to discontinue the treatment. Treatment beyond RECIST 1.1 progression is allowed in patients deriving clinical benefit upon investigator's discretion, provided no other criteria for treatment withdrawal are met.

To achieve optimal clinical outcomes with imatinib in GIST patients, it is crucial to maintain standard imatinib dose. Skin rash is a relatively common and sometimes severe adverse event of imatinib in GIST patients and may affect imatinib compliance. Our previous retrospective study suggested that severe skin rash induced by imatinib can be managed by systemic steroid without imatinib dose interruption or reduction. This phase II study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of systemic steroid in GIST patients with imatinib-associated severe skin rash.